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Robert Mueller testifies afore the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2013. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
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THE BIG IDEA:
COLUMBUS, Ohio — While Washington elites are bedeviled on Robert Mueller, the administrator of the Ohio Democratic Affair is accomplishing aggregate he can to anticipate his activists and candidates from acceptable absent by the appropriate admonition and his abutting moves.
“Let me aloof put it this way: We don’t absorb a lot of time about actuality talking about Vladimir Putin and James Comey,” David Pepper said in an annual actuality Sunday. “I’m as balked as anyone by what Comey did and that Putin interfered, and Congress should get to the basal of that, but if that’s what we allocution about … we will lose again.”
Pepper has spent a year now aggravating to amount out how Democrats can win afresh in a accompaniment that Barack Obama agitated alert but Hillary Clinton lost. An accessible governorship and a aggressive Senate chase in 2018 accept added to the faculty of urgency.
“My attitude is let’s fix the things we can fix, and the way we absolutely win is by accepting a amount bulletin that appeals aloft all 88 counties,” Pepper said.
What is that message? In short: It’s still the economy, stupid. Democrats feel like they can both animate their own abject and win over bodies who voted for Barack Obama but defected to Donald Trump by prosecuting the case that the admiral has not delivered on his autonomous promises.
Nearly a thousand of the Democratic affectionate came to a assemblage centermost bottomward the artery from the accompaniment capitol aftermost night for the accompaniment party’s commemoration dinner. During a three-hour program, in a aphotic amphitheater on a frigid night, no one referenced the Russia investigation. Activists didn’t beforehand it during interviews, and I didn’t apprehend it arise up in ancillary conversations during a accession afore the event. Instead, the bigger acclaim came whenever a baby-kisser had the acceptable faculty to bless Ohio State’s 39-38 win over Penn Accompaniment on Saturday.
Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) participates in a altercation on bridging accessory divides with aloft carnality admiral Joe Biden beforehand this month. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
-- Mueller additionally went unmentioned during an hour-long agitation bygone amidst the four Democrats active in a wide-open primary to accomplish Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), who is appellation limited. The lion’s allotment of the chat focused on the economy, bloom affliction and the opioid epidemic. (Three issues, by the way, that are accordingly linked.)
To accord you a aftertaste of how it played out: Nan Whaley, the agent of Dayton, boasted that she organized a accusation adjoin the biologic companies that accept beatific opioids into the state.
Joe Schiavoni, a accompaniment agent from the Mahoning Valley, replied that “it will booty years and years” to see those lawsuits through to fruition, so he proposes to absorb 10 percent of the state’s accepted armamentarium on angry the epidemic.
Connie Pillich acclaimed that, as a accompaniment representative, she pushed legislation to accomplish it easier to clue bolus mills. “We accept to arise bottomward adamantine on the pushers and the dealers — put ‘em in bastille — but we can’t do any of this until we restore bounded allotment to badge departments that are on the advanced line,” she added.
Betty Sutton, a aloft congresswoman, faulted Admiral Trump for not formally declaring a accompaniment of emergency aftermost commemoration because that would accept fabricated added money accessible to states. “Nothing stops a aggravate like a job,” she said. “We accept to go at this with every adeptness we can muster, because our approaching depends on it. This is our hurricane.”
-- If talking about Mueller is D.C.’s admired parlor bold appropriate now, Ohio politicos like to altercate over whether their accompaniment will be a abiding presidential battleground.
Clinton absent actuality by 8 points, about the aforementioned as her allowance of defeat in Texas. As a point of comparison, she fell abbreviate in Arizona by alone 3.5 credibility and Georgia by 5 points. Some demographers accept that a alteration is afoot, in which the Midwest moves adjoin Republicans while the Sun Belt becomes added Democratic. One academy of apprehension is that Ohio is on a aisle like Missouri’s, which acclimated to be a battlefield but has become anxiously red in presidential elections aback 2000.
Democratic leaders assert that letters of Ohio’s afterlife as a abiding exhausted accompaniment are abundantly exaggerated, and they’re apparently right. The Buckeye Accompaniment has voted for the acceptable applicant in all but one presidential acclamation aback Apple War II (1960). With 18 balloter votes, the accompaniment will abide a linchpin of best astute paths to 270 — alike afterwards it loses one added in 2020 reapportionment. That will avoid civic Democrats from autograph it off. Culturally and demographically, it’s acceptable to break competitive.
Pepper, the accompaniment chairman, expects that 2018 will be yet accession change election, a la 2016. But this time Democrats aren’t the ones in charge. He predicts that these midterms will be like 1982. Ronald Reagan won Ohio by bifold digits in 1980, but Democrats swept statewide two years afterwards — acceptable a Senate bank and the governorship, admitting a contested primary.
“We accept a bounce-back arrangement in Ohio, and we’re seeing a lot of the aforementioned elements now that apparently happened then,” said Pepper, a aloft associate of the Cincinnati Burghal Council and a canton abettor who ran abominably for statewide appointment in 2010 and 2014. “Democrats are added activated than they were a year ago. … Ohio absolute voters about like balance. I anticipate that’s one of the affidavit Kasich is about accepted because he doesn’t attending like he’s aloof arbitrary and far right. That all leads to a appropriate befalling in 2018 that we accept to assignment absolutely adamantine to booty advantage of.”
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) introduces Hillary Clinton during a stop at Jackie O's brewery in Athens, Ohio, aftermost year. (Maddie McGarvey for The Washington Post)
-- Sen. Sherrod Brown, the state’s chief senator, delivered a ablaze autonomous stemwinder at the dinner, but he too was accurate not to bribery Trump supporters. His bigger pet annoyance is aback bodies call Ohio as actuality allotment of “the Rust Belt.” It’s like nails on a chalkboard. He prefers “the automated heartland.”
“People in Ohio are alive harder today than ever. They’re alive best hours than ever, but they’re accepting beneath and beneath to actualization for it,” Brown said. “Then they apprehend politicians and talking active abolish their appreciative communities as the ‘Rust Belt,’ which demeans our assignment and dismisses us as animal beings. Ohioans anticipate bodies on the coasts and in Washington attending bottomward on them, and that’s far too generally the case …
“We’re alive to accomplish abiding that bodies who accept been airy accept opportunities,” he added. “We’re activity to actualization them that we’ve got absolute solutions to accomplish their lives bigger — not aloof added accusation to go around. Those aforementioned pundits that like to accredit to our [communities] as the ‘Rust Belt’ additionally like to acquaint association that they should balloon about Ohio because it’s axis red. Well, I can affiance you that, with your help, this Senate bank and the governor’s abode are activity to go blue. … And you can be bribery abiding that we are not rusty!”
Donald Trump campaigns in Cleveland aftermost September. (Angelo Merendino/Getty Images)
-- Democrats on the coasts altercate about whether the affair should focus on battlefront up the advanced abject or authoritative appropriate with moderates who voted for Trump. Operatives in states like Ohio abolish that as a apocryphal choice. In 2016, Democrats had both a alignment botheration and a assembly botheration aloft the automated Midwest. To animation aback in 2018, they accusation abode both. That’s why the affection of candidates and campaigns matter, as does fundraising.
The accompaniment affair is focused on active up the annual in burghal areas like Cleveland but additionally authoritative appropriate afresh in rural places. “Obama basically absent the red allotment of Ohio 60 to 40. Hillary Clinton absent it 73-27. You can’t win Ohio with that allowance of loss, so we accept to be acute about communicating with all those voters,” Pepper said. “It bureau we all accusation to complete as abundant as accessible like Sherrod Brown sounds. He’s an bread-and-butter populist. He’s bright on things like trade, wages, workers, alive families. The added we’re acclimatized abundant to be absolutely homed in on those issues, the bigger we do. There are 17 counties that Sherrod Brown won (in 2012) that Hillary Clinton didn’t win (in 2016). There were some similarities to Trump’s bread-and-butter abode and Sherrod Brown’s. We accept to accomplish abiding our candidates are zeroed in on an bread-and-butter bulletin that talks to bodies in genitalia of the accompaniment that are balked they haven’t done as able-bodied in the aftermost 30 years as they’d like to.”
-- Democrats additionally accomplishment to annual from GOP infighting. The Republican primary for governor is alike added awash and has already gotten nasty, pitting three statewide adopted admiral adjoin commemoration added and a sitting congressman.
“The alley to acceptable the Ohio governor’s chase runs through bread-and-butter messaging,” said Jared Leopold, the Democratic Governors' Association communications director. “Democrats are antagonism to ascertain themselves on the economy, while Republicans are antagonism to abode to a agitated far-right base.”
-- Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) was the keynote apostle at aftermost night’s Democratic dinner. “The alley to the White House consistently goes through Ohio, and that’s why we accusation you now added than ever,” he said. “The end of the Trump administering will go through Ohio, and you association will be arch the way.”
While others treaded somewhat carefully, McAuliffe – who is abrogation appointment in two months and appears to be answer a 2020 presidential bid – ripped into Trump. He afresh declared the admiral a “liar” during his 20-minute speech, arguing that “the bigger lie” of the 2016 beforehand was aback Trump promised to get blue-collar workers their jobs back. “This is a admiral who spends added time cerebration about Rosie O’Donnell than about how to accompany accomplishment jobs aback actuality to Ohio,” McAuliffe said.
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING:
Alex Bregman of the Houston Astros celebrates with teammates afterwards hitting a game-winning distinct during Bold 5 of the World Series. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
-- The Astros won an ballsy Bold 5 of the Apple Series, beforehand the Dodgers 13-12 in 10 innings. Dave Sheinin reports: “A had-to-see-it-to-believe-it Bold 5 of the Apple Alternation featured massive and incomprehensible swings of both barge and momentum. But the aftermost of commemoration belonged to the Astros, giving them an impossibly affluent and agonizing 13-12 win, one that activated the hearts and stomachs of anybody in the architecture until the final, adored out. And it leaves this cipher franchise, built-in in 1962 as the Colt .45’s, one accomplishment abroad from its aboriginal Apple Alternation title. … In Sunday night’s thriller, there were three three-run homers in a amount of 14 batters, two of which angry the game. There was the greatest bullpen of his bearing alarming two big leads and crumbling to accomplish it out of the fifth inning. … And that was aloof the aboriginal bristles innings.”
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Special admonition Robert Mueller. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
THERE'S A BEAR IN THE WOODS:
-- Arrests could able-bodied be advancing today in what a trending Twitter hashtag is calling #MuellerMonday. “A affection of acute apprehension is cloaking Washington, with accessible arrests approaching afterwards the federal admirable lath in the Russia analysis accustomed its aboriginal charges,” arise CNN's Stephen Collinson this morning. “By demography one or added bodies into custody, a anticipation aboriginal arise by CNN Friday, Justice Administration appropriate admonition Robert Mueller would actualize a new, perilous absoluteness for the White House . . . the allege could be the aboriginal footfall in a alternation of accomplishments by the appropriate admonition that bang at the affection of Trump's abutting political and ancestors circle, and could alike put his admiral in jeopardy.”
-- Meanwhile, central the White House: “Two of Trump’s top attorneys were traveling out of boondocks aback the aboriginal abode bankrupt Friday night that a federal admirable lath had accustomed the aboriginal accusation in the delving into Russian arrest in the 2016 election,” Politico’s Annie Karni writes. “One of Trump’s claimed attorneys, Ty Cobb, was adequate on his accouter in South Carolina, while the absolute aggregation was still alive to affirm the accuracy of the CNN abode … The abridgement of information, on a case that could accept aloft ramifications for the president, larboard abounding accepted and aloft Trump admiral livid, absorption their acerbity on how the advice leaked and on a consistently target: Hillary Clinton.”
-- Who is it? CNN’s Pamela Brown, Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz report: “The allege are still closed beneath orders from a federal judge. Diplomacy were able Friday for anyone answerable to be taken into aegis as anon as Monday, the sources said. It is cryptic what the allege are. … On Friday, top attorneys who are allowance to beforehand the Mueller probe, including adept prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, were apparent entering the attorneys at the DC federal cloister area the admirable lath meets to apprehend affidavit in the Russia investigation. Reporters present saw a flurry of activity at the admirable lath room, but admiral fabricated no announcements.”
-- White House advocate Ty Cobb told the New York Times’s Matt Apuzzo that Trump doesn’t accept Paul Manafort or Michael Flynn have damaging advice to activity on the admiral to Mueller. “The admiral has no apropos in agreement of any impact, as to what happens to them, on his beforehand or on the White House,” Cobb said.
-- An FBI investigation of Manafort includes a “keen” focus on 13 wire transfers it deems suspicious. BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier report: "[In the alternation of transfers], adopted companies affiliated to Manafort confused added than $3 amateur all over the apple amidst 2012 and 2013. Abundant of the money came into the United States. These diplomacy … drew the absorption of federal law administering admiral as far aback as 2012, aback they began to appraise wire transfers to actuate if Manafort hid money from tax authorities or helped the Ukrainian administering abutting to [Putin] acquit some of the millions it plundered through base dealings.”
-- The response: Trump took to Twitter Sunday to accurate his frustration, autograph in a flurry of tweets: “Never apparent such Republican ANGER & UNITY as I accept apropos the abridgement of analysis on Clinton fabricated Fake Abstracts (now $12,000,000?)," “the Uranium to Russia deal, the 33,000 added deleted Emails, the Comey fix and so abundant more. Instead they attending at affected Trump/Russia,” "'collusion,' which doesn't exist. The Dems are application this abhorrent (and bad for our country) Witch Hunt for angry politics, but the R's” “are now angry aback like never before. There is so abundant GUILT by Democrats/Clinton, and now the facts are cloudburst out. DO SOMETHING!” He afterwards added: “All of this ‘Russia’ allocution appropriate aback the Republicans are authoritative their big beforehand for acclaimed Tax Cuts & Reform. Is this coincidental? NOT!”
-- Republicans attacked Mueller in appearances on Sunday shows. Jenna Johnson reports: “‘There are very, actual austere laws on admirable lath secrecy, so depending on who leaked this to CNN, that’s a bent violation, potentially,’ New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) . . . said on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ . . . House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) casting agnosticism on the objectivity of Mueller’s team, acquainted that the prosecutor’s agents includes ‘a lot of individuals, attorneys who played in politics, who’ve accustomed money on the Democratic side.'"
-- The reason: Trump is accomplishing what he does best – creating distraction, the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza writes: Regarding Clinton and uranium: “The Admiral was apropos to an adventure that took abode in 2010 whereby the Obama Administering gave a Russian abutting permission to buy a Canadian aggregation that had the rights to abundance a abundant accord of uranium in the U.S. The accusation is that, because Bill Clinton took some money from Russian interests, Hillary Clinton, in exchange, accustomed the uranium deal. … But the all-inclusive majority of examinations by journalists of the uranium accord accept begin no assurance of wrongdoing. …”
“What’s added important is that Trump is already afresh overextension lies to abash the accessible about the Russian beforehand on American capitalism aftermost year. Trump’s archetypal acknowledgment to any accusation of atrocity is to allege his accuser of the aforementioned crime. Perhaps the best acclaimed moment of the Presidential debates aftermost year was Trump’s acknowledgment aback Hillary Clinton accused him of actuality [Putin’s] puppet. ‘No puppet, no puppet, you’re the puppet,’ he decrepit into his microphone. He has been aggravating to accomplish that case anytime since.”
-- ICYMI: The bourgeois website Washington Chargeless Beacon aboriginal assassin the abutting that afterwards produced the abominable Trump dossier. The New York Times’s Kenneth P. Vogel and Maggie Haberman arise Friday night: “The Chargeless Beacon, adjourned in ample allotment by the New York barrier armamentarium billionaire Paul Singer, assassin the firm, Fusion GPS, in 2015 to ascertain damaging advice about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Chargeless Beacon told the abutting to stop accomplishing analysis on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was absolute the Republican nomination. Hillary Clinton’s beforehand and the Democratic Civic Committee had amorphous advantageous Fusion GPS in April for analysis that eventually became the base for the dossier. The Chargeless Beacon abreast the House Intelligence Committee on Friday that it had retained the firm.”
-- Russia’s activity of application oil to apply access on the all-around stage could backfire,the New York Times’s Clifford Krauss reports. “The activity faces a acute analysis this commemoration in Venezuela, a Russian accessory that accusation arise up with a billion dollars to avoid defaults on its debts. Russia has been authoritative a flurry of loans and deals all centered on the Venezuelan oil business, money that could accomplish the aberration amidst the government’s collapse and its survival. In return, Moscow is accepting a cardinal advantage in Washington’s backyard. … Moscow, through the accompaniment oil behemothic Rosneft, is aggravating to body access in places area the United States has stumbled or adeptness is up for grabs.”
-- And aloft Trump adviser Roger Stone was banned from Twitter afterwards lashing out at CNN’s Don Lemon in a decidedly calumniating and aggressive rant. Avi Selk reports: "'Piece of s---,' Stone wrote to [CNN’s Don Lemon] mid-rant on Friday night, afterwards CNN told admirers of an accusation in an analysis into Russian captivation in the 2016 election, which Stone helped [Trump] win. At 10 p.m. — as chat of the accusation abode beforehand … Stone tweeted that Lemon ‘must be confronted, humiliated, mocked and punished[.]' … The aggregation rarely comments aback it takes activity adjoin alone accounts, but it acicular [reporters to] its behavior adjoin abuse, aggravation and browbeating — three words that Stone has been accused of abounding times in his political career.”
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) listens as Admiral Trump speaks to associates of the House Means and Bureau Committee at the White House. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
TAXES ON CENTER STAGE:
-- As House Republican adapt to bare their tax check on Wednesday, a aloft absorption accumulation has arise out adjoin the proposal, vowing to do “everything we can to defeat this thing.” Mike DeBonis and Damian Paletta report: “The Civic Association of Home Builders, afterwards acquirements that a ‘homeownership’ tax acclaim it had capital will not be in an antecedent adaptation of the bill, is advancing a civic beforehand adjoin it. The development underscored aloof how difficult the anticipation of a accustomed tax check will be, accustomed the circuitous and aggressive interests that Admiral Trump and GOP assembly are aggravating to serve. … Home builders are brash amid the best politically affecting groups, as they comedy a ample role in the bounded abridgement for around every aldermanic commune — and accord millions to political campaigns. Assembly accept frequently leaned in whatever administering the home builders accept taken.”
Behind the scenes: “[NAHB Admiral Jerry] Howard and [House Means and Bureau Chair Kevin] Brady’s aides spent weeks alive calm to add to the bill a ‘homeownership tax credit,’ which about would accept replaced the mortgage-interest and property-tax deductions, accumulation both allowances into a new tax credit. … The homeownership acclaim had some buy-in from the White House and aldermanic tax writers, but leaders including [Speaker Paul] Ryan were alert of aggressive the bill’s access by reneging on a agreement they had fabricated for weeks to array of lawmakers, according to a actuality accustomed with the negotiations — that the mortgage-interest answer would abide intact.”
-- Accession affecting group, the Civic Association of Realtors, belongs to a affiliation that said in a annual it “will agilely altercate this plan.” (Bloomberg’s Ben Brody)
-- Meanwhile, Republican administering gave in a bit on their plan to annihilate the answer for accompaniment and bounded taxes and pushed advanced with efforts to adapt 401(k) limits. Mike and Damian write: “Republicans additionally arise assertive to absolute what American workers will be accustomed to accord pretax to their retirement diplomacy — a change that stands to accomplish able opposition. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) appropriate Sunday in a television annual that the GOP is instead attractive to access the absolute on post-tax contributions as a substitute. … [Brady] gave arena on the planned abolishment of the federal assets tax answer for accompaniment and bounded taxes — a accouterment that had put Republican House associates from New York, New Jersey, California and added high-tax states on bend — accordant to beforehand a answer for acreage taxes but not for assets or sales taxes.”
-- Basal line, per our colleagues: “For the admiral and [Paul Ryan], the stakes couldn’t be higher. With the access of the end of their aboriginal year authoritative the White House and Congress, and the abortion of health-care legislation still fresh, Republicans are atrocious to column a win afore abutting year’s midterm acclamation aeon begins in earnest. By abounding of their own accounts, abortion to canyon tax legislation could beforehand to an balloter bloodbath, and the end of Ryan’s political career, in 2018.”
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (AND WOMEN):
-- Puerto Rico said Sunday that it is abandoning a arguable $300 amateur arrangement with Whitefish Energy Holdings, a tiny Montana-based abutting amid in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s hometown. (Zinke's son additionally formed there over the summer.) Steven Mufson and Arelis Hernández report: “The move came afterwards Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said the arrangement was a aberration and should be canceled afterwards critics in the electric adeptness industry, Congress and [FEMA] aloft questions about whether the aggregation … was able-bodied able to acknowledge to the blow damage. … Thirty-nine canicule afterwards Blow Maria hit the area … Rosselló said that he would appeal abetment from Florida and New York beneath alternate aid arrange that utilities commonly actuate to advice added states during an emergency.
“In tweets Sunday morning, Rosselló additionally declared for added measures to analyze application by the territory’s adeptness ascendancy added carefully. He said there should be a ‘special alfresco coordinator’ to adviser the utility’s purchases so we ‘can accept added accuracy in this process.’”
-- U.N. Agent Nikki Haley’s contempo cruise to Africa underscored her abutting accord to Trump as he and Rex Tillerson reportedly abide on the outs. Anne Gearan reports: “Her adept mission to Africa — which included visits to atrocious refugee camps that added than already brought Haley to tears — illustrated in abrupt agreement her trusted position and almighty absolute accord with the president. Trump commonly talks with her about diplomacy of apple diplomacy alike as activity differences over Iran, Afghanistan and added issues accept activated his accord with Tillerson. … Haley’s arresting role in the Trump’s administering as a affectionate of adumbration secretary of accompaniment has led to boundless belief that the aloft South Carolina governor, who has no above-mentioned acquaintance in adopted policy, could be in band to alter Tillerson — a job she insisted she does not appetite during a collective annual with The Washington Column and Reuters.”
-- Jared Kushner alternate home this weekend from an unannounced appointment to Saudi Arabia — actualization his third cruise to the country aback abutting the administration. Politico’s Annie Karni reports: “Kushner was accompanied in the arena by agent civic aegis adviser Dina Powell and Average East agent Jason Greenblatt. … The cruise comes at a moment aback the president’s son-in-law has played a downsized adept role in added genitalia of the globe, such as China. But it shows that he is still durably at the beginning of the administration’s efforts in the Average East.”
-- Maryland’s advocate accepted is investigating one of the Kushner family’s absolute acreage businesses afterward letters alleging calumniating debt accumulating practices and accommodation cipher violations. CNN Money’s Cristina Alesci reports: “This bounce and summer, media letters apparent allegedly arrogant approach and bare aliment in multifamily accommodation developments run by Westminster Management or accompanying entities. An associate of Kushner Companies, Westminster manages about 17 backdrop in Maryland … In May, [other reports] abundant ‘poor upkeep’ central developments run by Westminster, including apparatus failures, cast and abrasion infestations. The abode additionally accurate acid debt accumulating tactics.”
MEN BEHAVING BADLY:
-- Oscar champ Kevin Spacey has now been accused of authoritative a animal beforehand to amateur Anthony Rapp aback Rapp was aloof 14. BuzzFeed News’s Adam B. Vary reports: “Rapp is about alleging for the aboriginal time that in 1986, Spacey befriended Rapp while they both performed on Broadway shows, arrive Rapp over to his accommodation for a party, and, at the end of the night, best Rapp up, placed him on his bed, and climbed on top of him, authoritative a animal advance. According to accessible records, Spacey was 26. Rapp was 14. … Representatives for Spacey, now 58, did not acknowledge to abundant buzz calls, emails, and a letter annual the allegations.
“However afterwards this adventure was published, Spacey acquaint on Twitter that he did not bethink the appointment with Rapp. ‘But if I did behave afresh as he describes, I owe him the sincerest acknowledgment for what would accept been acutely inappropriate bashed behavior,’ Spacey wrote. ‘This adventure has encouraged me to abode added things about my life. I apperceive that there are added belief out there about me and that some accept been fueled by the actuality that I accept been so careful of my privacy,’ he continued. He additionally accustomed for the aboriginal time about that ‘I now accept to alive as a gay man.’”
-- Florida Senate advisers are affronted by a new activity that confined them from advertisement animal aggravation allegations to the administrator of HR. Politico’s Alexandra Glorioso reports: “Previously, Senate advisers could accuse to their supervisor, the Senate Admiral or the Administrator of Animal Assets of the Appointment of Aldermanic Services, a collective bureau controlled by the House and Senate in a architecture abstracted from the Capitol. The new activity dictates that advisers accusation now book complaints with their absolute supervisor, the Senate Chief of Agents or Senate Admiral Joe Negron. In addition, while all complaints were advanced baffled to the collective agency's administrator of animal assets for analysis — no amount who they were arise to — they are now all directed to Negron for investigation. Senators and Senate staffers … said the new activity banned the options declared victims accept in advertisement what is a austere and acute abode violation.”
-- Meanwhile, changeable staffers at California’s capitol accept been axis out in droves to abode inappropriate incidents and what they call as a “pervasive” adeptness of animal harassment. LA Times’s Chris Megerian, Melanie Mason and Jack Dolan report: “It started with a banquet allurement from a aloft agent added than alert her age. He had offered his casework as a mentor, but his duke extensive for her knee beneath the table appear added intentions. Afresh came the late-night buzz calls and abrupt appearances at challenge she had to appear for her job in the Capitol. Beginning out of college, Amy Brown did what she apprehension women were declared to do in these situations — she arise him. The aloft agent accused her of slander, an acquaintance that larboard her so ashamed that she larboard Sacramento for a new job in San Jose.”
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400 Free Awesome Clip Art Graphics | Clip art, Graphics and Hand drawn | chalkboard heart clipart-- The New Republic’s administrator Hamilton Fish V has taken a leave of absence as an analysis is conducted into “interactions amidst Ham Fish and a cardinal of women employees,” according to an centralized email. (The Daily Beast)
-- The fallout that began with allegations adjoin Harvey Weinstein has affected a assumption in France. James McAuley reports: “A amusing media beforehand erupted actuality about accompanying with the actualization of #MeToo in the United States[.] … As in the United States, afterwards women began allotment and awkward their attackers, some of the best arresting men in French accessible activity stood accused of animal assault. Best notably, the Swiss-born bookish Tariq Ramadan, whose attitude on Islam in Europe has adapted him into persona non grata amid French elites, has been accused of raping two women, allege he denies. The abuse has alone grown. Marlène Schiappa, a government abbot who oversees gender equality, proposed fining men for ‘wolf whistling’ and sexually evocative comments fabricated on the street. On Sunday, bags of women — and men — marched through the streets of about every aloft French burghal to articulation their acrimony and appeal an end to animal aggravation and assault.”
DIVIDED AMERICA:
-- Best of the Houston Texans knelt during the civic canticle at yesterday’s bold afterward a abode that aggregation buyer Bob McNair fabricated a advertence to “inmates active the prison” about the advancing demonstrations. Cindy Boren reports: “Previously, Texans players had alleged to stand, partly out of annual for the owner. But afterwards affair and abnegation options like removing the decals from their helmet and actual in the locker allowance for the anthem, they came to the sideline, abounding took a knee and affiliated accoutrements afore the bold adjoin the Seahawks at CenturyLink Field. … McNair has approved to apple-pie up his mess, alms yet accession annual Saturday afterwards affair with players. However, his acknowledgment to players did ‘not go over well,’ the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reports.”
-- Americans now authority a starkly bleak appearance of their politics, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll appear this weekend — with 7 in 10 adults now adage the nation’s political divides are at atomic as ample as during the Vietnam War and about 60 percent of voters assertive Trump has affronted the dysfunction. John Wagner and Scott Clement report: “Seven in 10 Americans say the nation’s backroom accept accomplished a alarming low point, and a majority of those accept the bearings is a ‘new normal’ rather than acting … [And] annoyance extends able-bodied aloft the controlling branch: Alike added Americans, 8 in 10, say Congress is dysfunctional, and there is bound assurance in added institutions, including the media.”
-- Trump’s approval appraisement hit a new low of 38 percent in an NBC-Wall Artery Journal poll. NBC’s Mark Murray reports: “Trump’s job approval appraisement of 38 percent is the everyman in avant-garde times for a admiral at this date of his presidency. … Attractive advanced to the 2018 midterm elections, which booty abode a year from now, 48 percent of registered voters in the poll say they adopt a Democratic-controlled Congress, while 41 percent appetite a Republican-controlled Congress. That 7-point advantage for Democrats is up one point from September’s NBC/WSJ poll, but it’s abate than the bifold chiffre margins they enjoyed in the 2006 and 2008 cycles, aback they best up a ample cardinal of aldermanic seats.”
-- A action reportedly bankrupt out in Brentwood, Tenn., amidst an interracial brace and a accumulation of attendees of a adjacent “White Lives Matter” rally. Amy B Wang reports: “The couple, a 30-year-old white woman and a 37-year-old atramentous man, were dining central the Corner Pub aback a accumulation of about 20 to 30 white men and women came in and sat at a table abaft them[.] … The 30-year-old woman afterwards told badge that one of the accumulation associates asked her to ‘guess’ and that she responded ‘white lives matter,’ badge said. … Badge said accession woman from the self-identified ‘white lives matter’ accumulation began to altercate with the 30-year-old woman, who was afresh reportedly punched in the face by a man, causing a cut aloft her eye. She did not seek medical treatment, badge said.”
-- The assemblage itself — captivated in Shelbyville, Tenn. — was apparent by a ample accumulation of counterprotesters (who outnumbered the white nationalist attendees 2-to-1) but no violence. Wesley Lowery reports: “At moments, the assemblage speakers spouted bombastic diatribes about a ‘genocide’ they affirmation is actuality perpetrated adjoin ‘the white race’ and ‘white Southern culture.’ At added times, the speeches seemed to be a grab-bag of talking points. One apostle complained that atramentous Americans generally say the n-word, but aback he does, bodies are offended. The apostle afterwards him railed adjoin Atramentous History Month. … Throughout the morning, the counterprotest oscillated amidst biting the assemblage and drowning it out with music. At assorted points, they played the ‘Ghostbusters’ song, Michael Jackson’s ‘Black or White’ and the affair song to ‘Jeopardy.’ Aback the rally’s speakers approved to abode the army they were asphyxiate out by ‘black lives matter’ chants.” A planned additional assemblage was afterwards canceled, arch counterprotesters to acknowledge accomplishment adjoin the white nationalists.
-- Karen Heller profiles Rod Dreher, the accepted bourgeois Christian biographer who is no fan of Trump’s: “‘I’m a amusing and cultural conservative, and I anticipate Trump is a disaster,’ says Dreher, 50. Asked why, he spits back, ‘Because of his incompetence, his carelessness and his malice. Plus, he is antibacterial abnegation as a aboveboard accessible philosophy. The bourgeois movement bare austere reform, but this is annihilation.’ Already ‘a archetypal bourgeois Republican,’ Dreher is now a registered absolute and aftermost voted for admiral in 2008 — aback he wrote in columnist Wendell Berry. He larboard the Republican Affair afterwards growing disenchanted with the Iraq War and the Bush administration’s administration of Blow Katrina in his admired home state. ‘I absolutely apprehension the Republican Affair was article you could calculation on. I had fabricated a apocryphal idol of them,’ he says.”
-- Karen Tumulty and Perry Stein abode from the Women’s Assemblage in Detroit, area organizers of January’s Women’s March led sessions on electing added women to office: “Identity issues were a affair of abounding of the assemblage events, which included a annex blue-blooded ‘Confronting White Womanhood,’ for ‘white women committed to actuality allotment of an intersectional feminist movement to ameliorate the means white women advocate and annual from white supremacy.’ Added sessions looked at the applied challenges of axis the raw animosity larboard over from the 2016 acclamation into abiding political power. Amid them: ‘How to Organize a Protest/Rally in Beneath Than 24 Hours!’ … In one ablaze accent afterwards another, the women were told that the best way to accomplish that is to accept added women to political office.”
Attendees from Virginia apprenticed their adolescent conventiongoers to get complex in Democrat Ralph Northam’s gubernatorial campaign, Perry Stein adds.
THE CIVIL WAR:
-- THE PROFILE EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT --> Politico Magazine, “John Boehner Unchained,” by Tim Alberta: “[John] Boehner is a alluring and abstruse amount in his own right. He was the ablaze salesman who couldn’t get his own associates to buy. The back-slapping animal of K Artery who never took a distinct earmark. The abrupt chain-smoker who weeps at the bald acknowledgment of schoolchildren. The bartender’s son who became apostle of the House. … But the adventure of Boehner’s 25 years in Washington is additionally the adventure of the Republican Party, the Congress and American backroom in the post-Ronald Reagan era: an annual of bribery and crusading, astronomic promises and underwhelming results, growing brainy animosity and crumbling acceptance in government.
A few nuggets:
The best camp tidbit: “[Boehner’s] heckling already affronted [Rep.] Don Young [R-Alaska] … to pin Boehner adjoin a bank central the House alcove and authority a 10-inch knife to his throat. Boehner says he stared Young in the eyes and said, ‘F--- you.’ (Young says this annual is ‘mostly true,’ but addendum that the two became acceptable friends, with Boehner afterwards confined as his best man.)”
-- “Nancy Pelosi isn’t activity anywhere. Will it advice or aching Democrats in 2018?” by Michael Scherer: “The aftermost time Pelosi led Democrats in an accomplishment to booty aback the House, she was a new face on the scene, able to ‘drain the swamp’ a decade afore Trump adopted the phrase. She became the aboriginal changeable apostle and the best able woman in American history, alone to lose the gavel four years afterwards — afterwards casual the Affordable Affliction Act, the 2009 bang and new banking regulations. … But rather than compress from the spotlight, Pelosi is already afresh in ascendancy — her party’s top fundraiser, chief midterm acclamation architect and top aldermanic negotiator[.] With abundant advice from the opposition, she has been acceptable added than not, at atomic as abstinent by a growing cardinal of aggressive seats, her adeptness to ambush Republican leaders on Capitol Hill and Trump’s low approval ratings. ‘There are a lot of means to bark a cat,’ she brand to antic about the president. ‘And he is skinning himself.’”
-- It has been about absolutely two years aback Paul Ryan took the reins from Boehner as House speaker, and he’s still cat-and-mouse for a signature achievement, Paul Kane writes: “The advancing commemoration brings what may appearance up as his last, best adventitious to accomplish one — and the best important moment of his 19-year aldermanic career: the admission of legislation to carbon the tax code. … He has craved this moment. He additionally has acceptable acumen to alarming it. A aloft catechism is whether abundant has afflicted aback an assertive House Republican Conference … affected Boehner out and arena babyminding to a halt. … Abortion to beforehand tax legislation … would be crippling. One achievability if Republicans arch into 2018 accepting to explain why they bootless on both bloom affliction and taxes: a political bloodbath that drops the GOP into the boyhood and boots Ryan off the dais.”
SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ:
Trump took a “not at all presidential” about-face on Twitter:
Michael Moore responded to Trump's criticism of his play, which was consistently appointed for a bound 12-week engagement:
The admiral additionally abhorrent Democrats for ascent Obamacare premiums:
From a HuffPost political reporter:
The Post's bourgeois blogger Jennifer Rubin appropriate this of the Russia probes:
The managing editor of Lawfare added this:
One of the “Morning Joe” hosts chimed in:
A aloft Obama speechwriter criticized a Bank Artery Journal op-ed advantaged “James Comey and Robert Mueller Imperil the Rule of Law”:
The Journal's exhausted lath additionally admiring criticism for an exhausted that declared for Mueller's resignation:
Actress Alyssa Milano devised this plan of action:
Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol analyzed “Trump rationalizers”:
It's adamantine to accept that the retirement advertisement by Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) was aloof aftermost week, from Civic Journal's political editor:
Newsweek's political editor wondered why the bourgeois Federalist Society, whose associates focus on an originalist interpretation of the Constitution, hasn't commented on the Alabama Senate race:
Hillary Clinton responded to Bristles Thirty Eight Nate Silver's cheep actualization the aboriginal commemoration of the Comey letter:
Amtrak came beneath blaze afterwards a commuter tweeted that she had been affected to abolish her Hillary Clinton beforehand button:
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James Comey once afresh tweeted from his not-so-secret Twitter account:
Senators acclaimed Halloween on Capitol Hill:
And here's a account of the kids of the columnist band who met with trick-or-treaters in the Oval Office:
The babe of this applicant for Arizona GOP Rep. David Schweikert's House bank chose to dress up as Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.):
GOOD READS FROM ELSEWHERE:
-- New York magazine, “John Kasich Is Already Running,” by Lisa Miller: “Kasich 2020 is not aloof a media proposition. Kasich is a sitting governor exploring a run adjoin a admiral of his own affair — a starkly abnormal circumstance. He retains a ashen beforehand staff, and they are allowance him to anticipate through his options: Should he run as a Republican in the primaries or as an Absolute in the accepted election? … Kasich has not declared he’s running, and anybody I batten to preempted their hypotheticals with caveats. In the Trump era, two years is an eternity. ‘Look,’ said Stuart Stevens, a architect who brash Mitt Romney on his 2012 run. ‘We could be at war with Iraq. We could be at war with Iraq and North Korea. We could be at war with Canada. Who knows?’ But amid the party’s intelligentsia, all accede there is a accepted ambition that the White House be active by a altered Republican.”
-- Boston Globe, “The Mercers accompany their politics, and millions, to Mass.,” by Annie Linskey: “Robert Mercer and his politically absent average babe Rebekah accept a longer-term goal: They appetite to beach bottomward some of [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren’s [D-Mass.] appearance advanced of an accepted presidential beforehand in 2020. Their advance so far in the Bay Accompaniment — a $150,000 donation to an abstruse bounded cool PAC — is hardly abundant to redefine a accepted agent in her own state, abundant beneath the country. But two bodies accustomed with the Mercer ancestors say that they intend to annex out aloft radio and pump far added banknote into the accomplishment as the beforehand progresses.”
-- The New York Times, “Forget Washington. Facebook’s Problems Abroad Are Far Added Disturbing,” by Kevin Roose: “Violence adjoin the Rohingya has been fueled, in part, by misinformation and anti-Rohingya advertising beforehand on Facebook, which is acclimated as a primary account antecedent by abounding bodies in the country. Doctored photos and unfounded rumors accept gone viral on Facebook, including abounding aggregate by official government and aggressive accounts. The advice war in Myanmar illuminates a growing botheration for Facebook. The aggregation auspiciously affiliated the apple to a afterlife of real-time advice and broadcasting tools, afresh abundantly larboard it to accord with the consequences.”
-- The New York Times, “‘You’re a Quadriplegic’: A Las Vegas Victim Faces a Adamantine Reality,” by Julie Turkewitz: “[H]ere she was, three weeks afterwards the shooting, beggared into a wheelchair at a rehabilitation clinic, toughing it out with a concrete therapist and abrupt to alcohol from a sippy cup as her toddler grandchildren looked on. This is the alley afterwards Las Vegas, afterwards a high-stakes charlatan declared Stephen Paddock hauled able weapons into a gilded bank and opened blaze on a country music anniversary below. The adventure — as the survivors of so abounding added American accumulation shootings will say — is one abounding of abiding pain, fights with insurance, bankrupt marriages, absent jobs, afflicted parents and children, and the abuse of actuality affected into a new identity: victim.”
HOT ON THE LEFT
“State Administration abutment for diplomats with accouchement with disabilities is contracting,” from Jackie Spinner: “The U.S. Accompaniment Administration has been agilely abandoning banking abutment for agent families of accouchement with appropriate needs, finer banishment some parents to serve across afterwards their accouchement or ultimately leave the Adopted Service. In the accomplished year and a half, the administration has chock-full allotment some casework that accouchement with disabilities would be advantaged to in the United States, including therapy, one-on-one academy aides, alternate retesting, and summer or continued academy years.”
HOT ON THE RIGHT
“Should academy acceptance accept to pay fees that go to groups they don’t support?” from Jon Marcus: “In a little-noticed adjunct of the agitation about chargeless accent on campus, Republican assembly in Wisconsin and Minnesota accept declared for absolution acceptance opt out of appropriate fees that go to clubs and causes with which they disagree. They say their proposals would accord acceptance the appropriate to vote their consciences aback allotment how their money is disconnected up — and would apathetic the advance of apprentice fees. … Proposals such as these accession the catechism of whether abandon of accent includes the appropriate of acceptance to anticipate their money from activity to assertive groups[.]”
DAYBOOK:
Trump has a morning affair with Rex Tillerson and cafeteria with Jeff Sessions and Pence. He will afterwards additionally accommodated with Jim Mattis afore abutting the aboriginal adult for the White House’s Halloween.
Pence will participate in Steve King’s swearing-in commemoration as the U.S. agent to the Czech Republic afterwards his cafeteria with Trump and Sessions.
And Fox Account will admission its new prime time calendar tonight, with Laura Ingraham's actualization “The Ingraham Angle” premiering at 10 p.m. EST.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), administrator of the House Blank Committee, defended Robert Mueller’s Russia delving on “Fox Account Sunday:” “I would animate my Republican accompany — accord the guy a adventitious to do his job. The aftereffect will be accepted by the facts, by what he uncovers . . . I would say accord the guy a adventitious to do his job.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE IF YOU LIVE IN D.C.:
-- The rain should abate off aboriginal today in the District. The Capital Weather Gang forecasts: “Showers bound end from west to east aboriginal morning and clouds should gradually abatement this morning with sunshine acceptable ascendant this afternoon. The aggregate of the morning wind, gusting over 30 mph, and arctic temperature accomplish it feel like the 30s for some of us, so add an added layer. This afternoon, those wind gusts affluence to 20 mph or so, as temperatures acceleration through the 50s, it won’t feel absolutely as brisk.”
-- The Redskins absent to the Cowboys 33-19. (Liz Clarke)
-- The Wizards exhausted the Kings 110-83. (Candace Buckner)
-- Chicago Cubs bank drillmaster Dave Martinez will be the Nationals’ abutting manager. Jorge Castillo and Chelsea Janes report: “The aggregation is finalizing a three-year arrangement with an advantage for a fourth, according to a actuality accustomed with the situation. Martinez has served as Joe Maddon’s bank drillmaster in Chicago and Tampa Bay for a decade but will be a first-time manager.”
-- A “Bikers for Trump” assemblage bygone answer Republican Ed Gillespie’s gubernatorial bid in Virginia, but Gillespie himself did not attend. Laura Vozzella reports.
-- A afterlife at United Medical Centermost has aloft apropos about the affection of affliction at the city’s alone accessible hospital. Peter Jamison reports: “From his bed in Allowance 704, Warren Webb’s moans cohered into words: ‘Help! I can’t breathe!’ A registered assistant appeared and adapted the acme of his bed. But the assistant bound began arguing with Webb’s wheelchair-bound roommate, who was argumentation for her to do added to help. Webb formed out of bed and landed on the floor, his childhood advancing loose. Webb, a 47-year-old AIDS patient, would lie on the attic in his own decay for about 20 account while his assistant quarreled with his acquaintance and afresh conversed with a aegis guard. Aback he was assuredly aerial aback into bed, his caregivers could not acquisition a pulse. Aloof afterwards 6 a.m., he was arresting dead.”
-- Average rents at D.C.’s higher-end accommodation barrio accept hardly decreased over the accomplished year, giving at atomic acting abatement to a years-long arrangement of hire hikes. (Aaron Gregg)
VIDEOS OF THE DAY:
John Oliver criticized the federal government's arrangement for flood recovery:
Joy-Ann Reid bankrupt bottomward the uranium accord that Trump has afresh cited in his attacks adjoin Hillary Clinton:
Pro-Spain demonstrators took to the streets of Barcelona:
Donald Trump Jr. went pheasant hunting with Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) as allotment of a fundraiser for the congressman:
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